The eldest brother Gary has fought in the war in Vietnam, and has just returned shortly before the time of the story. He is still quite affected by his experiences in Vietnam, as can be seen when he starts crying: ""Did you kill anyone in Vietnam?" ... "Did I kill anyone in Vietnam?" ... "Did I kill anyone in Vietnam?" ... "Did I kill anyone in Vietnam?". ...
A year in Vietnam really changed them and how they saw the war. ... Throughout their year in Vietnam though, they learned they could not be fearless, and they had to be scared sometimes or they would probably whined up dead. ... As they spend more and more days in Vietnam they had to depend on each other, and their squad more. ... He loved everyone on his squad and all the friends he made there in Vietnam. ... They know how the war really is, and that it's not how they make it out to be on television. ...
The pictures and letters symbolized their past and what they left behind them when they went to the war. ... That was significant because it symbolizes that he has left his past and is know in the jungle concentrating on the war. The Song Tra Bong symbolizes the effect that Vietnam has on the people that are there. Marry Anne went to Vietnam and stayed near the river. ... The letters and pictures represented their pasts, the Song Tra Bong represented the affect of Vietnam, and Linda was used to represent how storytelling can bring new life and these ideas were all very important. ...
Phuong, can be seen as the innocent country Vietnam whose promising lands pose the stage for a war between the politics of greedier forces. ... No matter who wins the war, how will it affect most of the country? ... And yet you have America coming in monitoring the war, aiding sides, imposing democracy. ... So what side is Fowler on, though he claims he is just there to report the happenings of the war. ... Are they both trying to help Vietnam? ...
Vietnam was a war that lasted close to fifteen years and many men lost their lives there. ... Homer knew what it felt like to go through war because his description of Odysseus is very good. According to Edwin Burgess article Odysseus in Vietnam "Odysseus shows many post war stress symptoms, just as a real soldier would." ... I found this quote on a website about Vietnam vets and the question asks to the vet was: What was the worst thing about Vietnam? ... Like many of our vets that were fighting in Vietnam. ...
Take, for instance, the boy who sees these big guys going off to war carrying big weapons. ... Then some day when he gets old enough he's going to go off to war and get killed because society gleams on the fact that if you go to war your going to be a hero. Now if you say went to Vietnam, people just where disgusted at you because of the mindless slaughter. Where the fact is that none of the people rally wanted to get dragged into the war in the first place. ...
Summary: The Things They Carried is a riveting book in which Vietnam War veteran Tim O"Brien abstractly writes of his experiences in the war. ... As Jimmy Cross continues to march with his men across Vietnam, he becomes more and more lost in his imaginary world where Martha is his wife. ... The only man he killed in Vietnam. ... One that forces him to revisit Vietnam, or, more specifically, the place where he killed the man, to finally achieve peace. ... Through fictionalization it seems the author was finally able to cope with what HE learned in Vietnam; the truth about life. ...
The Cost of War Vietnam was a hell on earth for the solders that were forced to fight it. ... When Henry came back from Vietnam he was traumatized. ... Henry was unbalanced when he came back from the war. ... When Henry came back from the war he was angry at the world and his family. Lyman tried to help him by trying to sidetrack his thoughts from the war. ...
Louise then portrays the Vietnam conflict as the atmosphere for time period . ... She used this to help convey her views of the Vietnam Conflict. ... Ambrose went to a military school, and then later served as an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge takes place at the time when our nation was divided, during the Civil War. ... Ambrose uses this knowledge to show the discipline, and practices of being a soldier during the Civil War. ...
Department of Veterans Affairs, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder affects over 31 percent of Vietnam veterans and 11 percent of veterans from the war in Afghanistan. Soldiers in the war are not only fighting for their country, but for their lives. ... The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien showed how the soldiers looked to each other for comfort in the traumatic situations they had to face in the war and used humor as a way to cope. ... Back in those times, it was hard enough to be black man in America, so being a black man in the war was another challenge he had to encounter. ... The Things...
Draper, The Quiet American is set in South Vietnam and anticipates U.S. involvement in the Vietnam conflict. ... One thing Fowler does that shows his opposition towards personal involvement in the war is avoid personal involvement himself. ... However, Fowler tries to report about the war without too much personal involvement (Anonymous) because he believes that a commoner like himself has no business in the war and getting involved would only cause harm, rather than good. ... Another thing Fowler does to show his opposition towards personal involvement in the war is preventing o...
He becomes a football star, a war hero, a ping-pong champion, a running icon, and a successful shrimp-boat captain. ... Their contrasting lifestyles is apparent when Forrest heads off to Vietnam, at the same time Jenny associates herself with the anti-war movement. ... The bus scene of Forrest taking off to Vietnam is similar to the scene when Forrest first met Jenny. ... His relationship to Bubba gave Forrest a vision of what he wanted to do with his life after the war. ... Their friendship began after the war and would later become shrimp-boat partners. ...
When the Lieutenant doesn't take part in his duties at the war, they loose men. ... This dilemma is the decision of giving up on Martha to focus more directly on his job as the first Lieutenant of the Vietnam War. ... Not only does he use the conflict with Martha but he also brings out the crisis in Lavender's death and being able to cope with and hold his position at war. ...
Army and is deported to Vietnam where he befriends Bubba and Lieutenant Dan. ... He has marked impairments in communication and does not fully grasp abstract thoughts or other's feelings, for instance, he cannot understand why Lieutenant Dan wants to die in Vietnam, nor Jenny is on drugs and has been sexually abused (Jordan, 2013). ... " (Forrest Gump, 2011) Such a "simple self" is reinforced by a number of his achievements after graduating: being a war hero in the Vietnam War for saving other soldiers, mastering superb skills in Ping Pong competition against the Chinese te...
Army and is deported to Vietnam where he befriends Bubba and Lieutenant Dan. ... He has marked impairments in communication and does not fully grasp abstract thoughts or other's feelings, for instance, he cannot understand why Lieutenant Dan wants to die in Vietnam, nor Jenny is on drugs and has been sexually abused (Jordan, 2013). ... " (Forrest Gump, 2011) Such a "simple self" is reinforced by a number of his achievements after graduating: being a war hero in the Vietnam War for saving other soldiers, mastering superb skills in Ping Pong competition against the Chinese te...
This leads to another problem because it is smuggled by U.S serviceman returning from the Vietnam War. ... Frank abuses the different institutions, he knows that in America drugs are too much so he goes to Vietnam to visit his cousin who owns a night club, and he gets his drugs from there, because he knows they are sold at a cheaper price there. ... Franks downfall occurs when the war ends; he realizes he cannot get his drugs into the U.S anymore. ... He abuses his power in the form of institutions he goes to a different country to bring drugs to the U.S since they are cheaper in Vietnam. ...
The soldiers had the task of fighting two Vietnam wars, an internal war and an external war. Each soldier carried various weapons with which to fight both wars. ... Kiowa's strong heritage and strong sense of duty to God helped him remain intact throughout the war. Kiowa carries many things with him through the war, whether these things are tangible or intangible they are all a necessity to surviving the war. ... Kiowa's character is strong willed and determined to make it out of the war alive. ...
Lyman's story is about how Henry changes, before the war Henry was out going, liked telling jokes and hanging out with his brother. After Henry comes home from being drafted into the Vietnam War; he doesn't talk or laugh and is to himself, Lyman even destroys the car they shared, trying to bring his brother back. ... "I always wondered what it was like to have long pretty hair," Henry says. (408) Henry liked to talk; he never met a stranger, " talking to whoever sat with us- (409) After three years of being a prisoner of war, Henry came home. " Henry was different, and I"ll say t...
The Soldier and the Stone" War. ... Jimmy Cross is the central character in this third-person narrative recollection of the Vietnam War. ... Yet it is also where they come home from war (brings them together with their home and loved ones once again). ... Perhaps Martha wanted Jimmy to have a piece of home to give him something else to think about rather than the war; for it was found at "high tide"--when Jimmy was at his highest point of mental and emotional decline. ... After Ted Lavender"s death, Jimmy felt "...this (guilt) was something he would have to carry like a stone in his st...
Even though Greene was no communist, his readers acknowledged his feelings about the American presence in Vietnam. ... After Fowler witnessed a few war scenes and contemplated the dead bodies, he said: "I know myself and I know the depth of my selfishness. ...
The Things They Carried War is hell. ... However, nothing compares to actually fighting in a war. ... He reacts and recovers from the war in the most productive way, by actually forming a career and helping others experience his war stories through his writing. ... O"Brien shows that he has no lingering bitterness towards the people of Vietnam stating, "All that's finished" (188) in response to a farmer near the field where he returned to leave Kiowa's shoes at the place where he died. ... War is nasty; war is fun" (80). ...
Rashad is a short story that deals with struggles of a mother-law using a gift that was given by her son in law while in Vietnam that reminds her of sad moments over the years. ... The banner was made from a peace offering from her to her son in law before going to war a picture of her granddaughter. ...
Easy Rider It was 1969, an era where the Vietnam War was being protested, and a segment of our nation was rebellious against any or all-traditional values of their parents. This rebellion was represented by some of America's youth by creating countercultures that were identified with rock music, long hair, anti-war protests and drugs. ...
War is a terrible thing. ... I knew war was going to change my life but I never thought it would be this dramatic of a change. ... My father died in the Vietnam War and I always felt it was my calling to complete his mission and join the military. ... We had our own bickers and scraps now and then but so does everyone when the stress of going off to war in a month is on your mind. ...
